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JOY Drive

Nov
26
2025

Dr Joel McGregor: Do Youth Justice Reforms Make Communities Safer?

Government & Organisations, Law, News & Politics, Politics, Society & Culture

Victoria is introducing harsher penalties for young people, but will treating 14-year-olds like adults actually reduce crime or make things ...

Nov
16
2025

Professor Paula Gerber: Tasmania’s Historic Compensation for Past Homosexuality Convictions

Government & Organisations, Law, LGBTIQA+ Community, News & Politics, Sexuality, Society & Culture

Tasmania will compensate people convicted under historic homosexuality laws, which is an Australian first. Professor Paula Gerber explains how the ...

Nov
7
2025

Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne: The Internet’s Mayor and the Politics of Virality

News & Politics, Politics, Popular Culture, Society & Culture

New York Assembly member Zohran Mamdani has been dubbed “the Internet’s Mayor”. His joyful, viral campaign is turning local politics ...

Oct
18
2025

Phil Brown: Confessions of a Minor Poet

Kids & Family, LGBTIQA+ Community, News & Politics, Personal Journals, Popular Culture, Relationships

Surfboards, sonnets and newsroom deadlines—Phil Brown’s memoir is a funny, tender look at chasing creativity while surviving the chaos of ...

Oct
12
2025

Dr Ash Russell: Compensation for Tasmania’s Queer Survivors

Government & Organisations, History, Law, LGBTIQA+ Community, News & Politics, Sexuality, Society & Culture

Tasmania was once the last Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality and now it is the first to offer compensation to ...

Oct
12
2025

Professor Andrea Carson: Facebook, Falsehoods and the Cost of Misinformation

News & Politics, Social Media, Society & Culture

Three million Facebook posts, one clear finding: misinformation is not just online noise. It is shaping how Australians think, vote ...

Oct
4
2025

Caitlin Bunker: Mad Monday, Accountability and AFL Inclusion

LGBTIQA+ Community, News & Politics, Sexuality, Society & Culture, Sports & Recreation

A Geelong Cats “Mad Monday” post sparked a backlash and big questions about AFL culture. Pride Cup’s Caitlin Bunker talks ...

Oct
4
2025

Dr Sara Webb: 2025 International Astronautical Congress

Education, Natural Sciences, News & Politics, Science

Thousands of scientists, astronauts and engineers were in Sydney for the International Astronautical Congress. Dr Sara Webb from Swinburne University ...

Sep
28
2025

Associate Professor Lauren Rosewarne: Grindr, Memorials and Internet Irony

LGBTIQA+ Community, News & Politics, Politics, Society & Culture

At Charlie Kirk’s memorial, tens of thousands gathered, but online, the story took a very different turn, with rumours about ...

Sep
28
2025

Professor Lisa Given: Social Media Ban for Under-16s

Kids & Family, Law, Mental Health, News & Politics, Personal Safety, Politics, Social Media, Society & Culture

From December 2025, social media platforms must take “reasonable steps” to block under-16s from creating or keeping accounts. Professor Lisa ...